Exploring Possibilities - Weekly Energy Boost

Whether we seek small or drastic changes in life, asking the right questions is the best place to start. This week we’ll explore new possibilities for defining our specific path and designing our ideal life. Episode 3 of 4. Original airdate: 9/20/21

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Good morning, Everyone. Good evening, Good afternoon, Wherever you are, And welcome to this week's Weekly Energy Boost. My name is Ellie Sheva, And I am here this chilly Monday morning with David. We are excited to talk to you about exploring possibilities and how that fits into the energy this week and the energy this month. Weekly Energy Boost is a seven-day spiritual energy forecast where David and I, And sometimes our guests, Strive to provide our listeners with the most powerful and practical wisdom and tools gleaned from the teachings of Kabbalah so that you not only have the most fabulous week, You could have, But that those lessons and those tools stay with you for the rest of your lives. This week, We are inspired to share with you these, I want to say, Life-changing concepts because the energy this week is really asking us to break free from the old habits, The old belief systems, The old behaviors, Without needing to go through something difficult to get us there. This is the week in which we can expand our capacity to receive, To receive happiness, To receive fulfillment, To have certainty, To have appreciation, To have consciousness. Inevitably, As life has shown us, Struggle will get us there. But this is the week that through proactive sharing, Through proactive kindness, Through proactive connection, We can grow that capacity without needing the chaos to get us there. And so, I know I have my list of stuff I want to talk about. I'm sure David does as well. Where do we begin? For me, This is such a powerful week and the window is open to receive unique gifts that usually aren't open during the year. So what's available now? This idea, I'm going to start with appreciation. The idea that if I feel the pleasure of something that's in my possession, Which that's how I define appreciation, That you feel it's pleasure. Because you appreciate something that you feel fulfills you. You feel makes you feel better. Its essence is there. And that's when you appreciate something. It's hard to appreciate something when you don't feel it, When it's not giving you energy, When it's not giving you pleasure, Excitement or stimulation. However, If you can extract the pleasure from as many things as possible, Then you've tapped into appreciation. So appreciation becomes the vessel that not only extends the expiration date of that thing, But then opens you up to receive more. Many times in life, People will receive something and then they'll either lose it or they'll have to lose it before they get something else. And so people never really grow. They don't really grow in their fulfillment. One area of their life is good and then one area goes bad. And so they're always playing whack-a-mole with their life. Why? Why can't you just have a good life and keep adding to it? It all comes down to appreciation. So this week, If a person proactively takes the time and says, Okay, Let's start with the most mundane things like my body, My ability to see or hear. I mean that sounds so cliché even as I say it because we all sound, You should appreciate the fact that you can see and taste and what. The point is if you took the time and just actually connected to the fact that your taste buds are operating or that you're able to see objects and appreciate that and enjoy the fact that you can see it, Then you built a spiritual vessel for that. So your eyes actually get stronger. And not only that, The creator will show you more. Actually, It will give you spiritual vision. That's how you get spiritual vision is when you appreciate just the basic vision that you have. So this is a tool to receive more and not lose what you have. This is not a moral discussion or philosophical discussion about how we should all appreciate what we have because that's what it means to be spiritual. Who cares about that? This is about how I really want to feel like. I want to really feel how appreciative I am of the fact that you're with this person or that you have certain knowledge or that you have children or whatever it is. So that's the first secret I wanted to share and the gates are open to help us lock in that energy of appreciation for the whole year as a tool to technology. It's something that we have to choose to do consciously and not wait for that feeling. Sometimes we feel blessed. It's a feeling that overcomes us. I think David is saying to consciously inject, To choose to be in that mindset by and within itself generates blessings and miracles. I'm sure there's a lot of people listening that feel they're in situations in their life that they wouldn't choose. We've heard from listeners over the years people who are in chronic pain or are caretaking family members or who can't leave jobs because they are dependent on the income and can't quote unquote afford to do something different. For us, Caballistically what we're looking at this week and I think in general it's something that you can apply to any time of the year is that while I can't necessarily choose what's happening around me or who the characters are in the scene that's playing out right now, I can choose what meaning to assign it and how I respond to it. I think that freedom of choice is something that we don't appreciate enough. The turning point in the movie or in the scene is when I decide I'm not going to let this or that make me feel this way or that. I'm not going to let that coworker who's so negative or annoying, I'm not going to let them bring me down or even to me it is a lot about asking questions and I think that when we feel stuck or we resign to the fact that this is the way things are going to be, We stop being the co-creators and that's really where the problem begins. When we stop seeing ourselves as active participants and simply sort of roll over and let things happen that's when life starts to really become miserable. Part of what we wanted to talk about is how asking questions, Not just accepting things as they are, Not accepting things at face value, Not rolling over and playing dead so to speak with the things in our life that we would like to change. Maybe we can't even imagine changing because they feel so either out of our control or we're so locked into them. I know personally I've heard so many stories I've witnessed also people go through tremendous growth and change simply because they started to ask if I could do anything what would I do differently? If I wasn't dependent on, We spoke about this a few weeks ago, If I wasn't dependent on this money what would I do? If I could go anywhere in the world where would I go? If I could say what I feel in my heart without fear of the consequences what would I say? Starting to ask questions like that, Looking at things differently I think is part of the key to making changes which is really what this month is all about on many levels is if I can start to look at things differently I can experience them differently and I can change how I experience them. You said something after I said about the appreciation that a lot of times people live their life based on feeling blessed when something happens and this is a very reactive way of living it's actually not the way to grow. What we need to seize and take advantage of and be excited and train ourselves to be excited about is when there's no external stimulation. When you feel alone is the most powerful time to create who you are. When you feel alone that is the most powerful time to access your soul which has been hidden for thousands of years and the only reason you feel alone is that the universe has conspired to take a step back to allow you to shine and to bring forth something about yourself that you didn't know existed. So appreciation actually is linked to certainty and that is the two gifts that we get this week certainty and the ability to appreciate. What is certainty? Certainty is when you feel alone when you feel everything is conspiring against you when you feel that you don't have the magic touch anymore when you feel that you're not good enough when you feel that you don't see exactly what to do how to do it when there's too many voices in your head or not any voices so you're not getting any direction. Certainty means I'm going to move forward I'm going to go back to the basics that's what the Kabbalists say go back to the basics when you feel alone when you feel you're in darkness when you feel that the lights are turning red go back to the basics basics of Kabbalah 1. I'm going to go against my comfort zone I'm going to consistently add value I'm not going to look to receive in return knowing that I'm going to build up my bank of light which is going to produce miracles in unknown ways and I'm not even looking for what ways I'm not going to cash in my light on the things that I think are important because the Creator does want to give us more than what's on our dream list. I think it's also important to acknowledge the intensity of the last few weeks I don't know if you've all been feeling it if you've been on the same planet with me here but these have been an intense I would say six weeks or so where whether you like it or not whether you're aware of it or not there is a cosmic reason for it and that's really what I want to get to but I also want to be a little bit human for a second and say it's been really tough it's been really tough to be spiritual to be focused to be open-minded to be compassionate and one of the reasons for that and this is also tied into the energy of this week in that expansion that David and I are talking about is that kabbalistically we all have a certain capacity right we call it in the weekly energy boost we refer to it as our vessel in kabbalah we refer to it as the vessel and that is our spiritual capacity not only capacity to tolerate struggle and tolerate sacrifice but also to experience joy and fulfillment those are there's a direct correlation between our ability to tolerate challenges and our ability to experience fulfillment the greater our ability to tolerate challenges the greater our ability to experience fulfillment so the universe has this inbuilt mechanism whereas where it's constantly going to try to get us to grow that capacity for fulfillment usually through another challenge right the universe says to us you're ready to level up here's something that you probably think you can't handle you can handle it let's see what you do with it and I have a choice in that moment I can stay who I am I can say universe and we say it all the time if we're honest I can't handle this it's too much I'm at my wits end I'm at my ropes and I I'm gonna collapse or we can say I can't handle it obviously the universe is giving it to me and I have in my opinion this is my my translation you know I have the opportunity either to strengthen my certainty which is that I can handle it maybe I need to do a little bit more of a surrender or a sacrifice or letting go or maybe I need to give in a way that I I maybe previously wasn't aware that I was capable of giving and when I when I managed to rise to the occasion I grow my capacity I've stretched myself what I in in layman's terms I basically expanded my comfort zone right I've taken what was uncomfortable when I say uncomfortable I don't mean sleeping on a bed of nails I mean speaking my voice speaking up for myself it might be shutting up for other people it might be for others doing things that are not in my nature the moment I do that I expand my comfort zone which means I expand my capacity for fulfillment and I become a stronger person so the rest of the year the universe is set up to give us periodically those opportunities to let us stretch our comfort zone stretch our fulfillment capacity stretch our spiritual muscles it is in this time that we can stretch that capacity as David was saying without that the need for the universe to squeeze us which in kabbalah we call that surrounding light the inner light is that joy and fulfillment that the vessel that I am capable of without making an effort you know I can bake if cooking is my is the form of sharing that I'm comfortable with so cooking is not going to stretch my vessel if maybe spending time with somebody for two hours listening to them and talking to them and not looking at my watch and thinking about my to-do list if that's outside of my comfort zone that's going to be more powerful for me more life-changing for me than cooking the meal for 300 people which is still totally in my comfort zone so what we want to look at and to David's point the appreciation is a big a big piece of that puzzle because it's not natural to appreciate when you have reason not to appreciate or when nothing amazing is happening and I feel that you know I brought the intensity up because I think it was a little bit also hard to focus on blessings when things are so intense when it's one thing after another when you're not sleeping enough when you're running yourself ragged and you kind of look up and you say this really more are you serious like how much more can we handle and the truth is infinitely more especially when we're stepping into it because we can not because we have to and that's really the punchline of what I'm saying is that when you choose to stretch yourself it is actually a lot more comfortable than when the universe forces you into changing people think that appreciation is that which I feel once I receive and actually we're using it as a tool to receive appreciation is the way you receive and appreciating the ugly parts of yourself the negative parts of yourself is what's actually going to help you receive the clarity and the beauty of those parts and it wasn't on this show it was on a class I gave last week you know a student of ours who's been following us for a while she reminded me of something that I think I told her in Kabbalah one or two and I didn't know what she was gonna say it was really powerful the concept and I want to bring it up again she had said that she just loves Diet Coke I don't know if you guys remember this I'm just she did you heard this oh yeah you were there you were there so she's like tell me if I'm that's my that's my cheat when I when I'm feeling rebellious and you know like screw this I do it with the Mexican Coke you know the I could puke from the sweetness it needs to be a Diet Coke I true confessions of Kabbalah teachers I I will totally be reactive with a Mexican Mexican Coke is like just eat sugar that's Diet Coke is more like eating chemicals okay go on all right so anyways she she said in the class that she that's just like her go-to like in the morning and then just Diet Coke and so I don't know why this came up but even but this is what she said that we told her I want you to go home and just really enjoy that Diet Coke and just nurture it and caress it and and talk to it and just relish in the diet ness of that Coke and I don't know what happened after that but she told me whatever four or five years later she just said it in the show last week that after she did that she never wanted Diet Coke again and I and I found out to be so profound and I didn't know the resolution to that advice that we had given her many many years ago but was powerful about that was as soon as she took away the guilt associated with that as soon as she took away the shame around enjoying something for herself even if it wasn't good for her she lost the craving for it what do you think about that what that's a huge a huge secret that a lot of times we do something because we're actually feet we're ashamed of doing it but the shame is feeding us and it's feeding the desire to tell which is a very ironic thing I have a whole theory about guilt and shame and and I wasn't raised religious so you can't really play the religious card with me there's something about guilt and shame that feels responsible that feels aware that feels enlightened that feels like I am accountable for my actions I know this is bad right I know that this isn't good for me and I am going to suffer in my negativity because that's the spiritual thing to do suffering is the way I can serve you best my master well it's almost the way we serve the creator relishes in in my suffering hopefully you know David is being facetious right it's it's but you understand I'm saying it's like I am gonna beat myself up through this we talked about this when we focused in that we had a number of episodes where we talked about food and the that that study that you know calorie consumption is higher in other countries but they're healthier the the supposition was that they enjoy their food they relish it it's a social event for them and here in America we eat the Big Mac and we regret it deeply with every bite enjoy the Big Mac right so the point being that the the self gratification that comes with the guilt and the beating yourself up it really is a not placebo but it's a substitute for true accountability true consciousness true awareness which would recognize that beating yourself up has no place in spirituality guilt has no place in spirituality maybe the function of guilt is so that we can recognize our missteps and then take responsibility and be accountable to never do it again but the staying in that's that state of guilt or shame beating yourself up actually is the poison right I I genuinely believe I mean I guess if I believe that I drink still drink Diet Coke but there are we see people they what is it the book about the blue zones the places where people are yes you have people there that are smoking three packs of cigarettes a day and living to 120 and what was the reason there they just enjoy you they're happy they have a sense of community and belonging they contribute to their society their their community I don't remember all the points but the the they're active they're happy they feel connected and they're ingesting poisons how do you explain that and and their longevity is is the highest in the world that there is something about you know the the acknowledgement that I to me that's about assigning meaning I get to decide if it's killing me or not right you talked about when we talked about the cognitive dissonance you know you have people that they're smoking and they're saying I don't want to do it but they're still doing it why do they not want to do it because they know it's bad for them but they're still doing it and that's actually what causes dis ease the the the lack of ease in the body comes from the mental emotional before it manifests in the physical there is a there was a time I heard this many years ago that there was a student who was studying Kabbalah and they they just loved being what's the proper word for this promiscuous they loved being promiscuous and they thought that that was not in line with the spiritual concepts of Kabbalah so without getting into whether it is or it isn't or whatever the the teacher looked in the eyes of the student and could tell that he was not going to relinquish himself from this lifestyle so he told him you should enjoy it to its max just no guilt go and have a blast and lo and behold that he did the student said you know what thank you finally I mean because he wasn't going to let it go so all that was really going to happen it was he was going to torture himself feel guilt about it torture himself some more and then probably the way the spirit probably the harder addiction to break than the actual behavior he feels bad about oh yeah of course of course that we become addicted to the guilt and the blame that's right that's right so he went all in of course what ends up happening when you go all in something like that is you you feel the emptiness and then it became intolerable and then and then he then he let it go and became spiritual but what's why I share that story is that in that situation with that person the right thing to do was to go deeper into the hole however there are some people who are listening saying oh well I mean they've been on my show they seem to be saying there must be something spiritual about being promiscuous I was worrying that people aren't tuning in right now to hear you saying that yeah you know what I like this Kalala stuff I'm gonna I'm gonna go find me some pleasure this enlightened person on YouTube told me to yeah I could be spiritual I can be this I can do all these different things and you know so that's incorrect right so everything is relative to the person that we're talking to so we're talking about a person can go deeper into the darkness we might be very careful saying this I'm not no one should please speak with a professional before you take any of this next advice but going deep into the hole usually means when you've already decided that you're gonna go that that's that's the secret there I would tell someone I would tell that that student to drink the diet coke with love because I already know she's gonna drink it no matter what anybody tells her so if you're gonna do it no matter what then you should drink it but if there is a chance and if there's an opening and you're actually ready to let go of something going deeper into it could actually not be the right thing to do going deeper into it is when there is nothing you know like these experimental drugs that are not FDA approved but the person's gonna die anyways so they're like you know what we'll give it to you but that doesn't mean we're gonna give it to the public I think there's some like a some kind of priority emergency cases where someone is really like on their deathbed and it's really you give them this or they're gonna die anyways so okay the FDA can approve something like that well this is not for the general public so this whole idea of going deeper into your negativity not for the general public but if you find someone's not letting go of their addiction sometimes it could be good just to embrace the addiction okay but how do you relate what the Diet Coke metaphor there's a question that you have on your page yeah how do you correlate the Diet Coke metaphor to relationships if we don't appreciate things we lose them yet if we appreciate them a lot we no longer crave them what okay so that's a good question so when we said to appreciate the Diet Coke what we're saying is by appreciating the energy that's in the coke it's not the coke you want there's some kind of energy you get and when you appreciate it what you're doing is you're connecting to the light in the coke and you're simultaneously kicking to the curb your your nigga your satan your opponent that is feeding off of guilt can I pause you for one second her problem was not that she's addicted to the Diet Coke she's addicted to the drama cycle of I'm consuming poison but I need it and I'm a bad person as a result right now being a bad person makes me feel at ease because I've learned that being a bad person is probably what the world needs of me I don't deserve to be a good person so now I feel in my comfort zone and therefore I should keep drinking Diet Coke yes it might not be good for my body but I've I've taught myself and trained myself to believe that suffering is is my life's purpose so that that's so when she when she appreciated it she appreciated the light in it she also gave a giant you know excuse me middle finger to the opponent and said you're not going to get energy this way and yeah that's why it worked are we are we cutting in and out yeah on mine basically just told me that your video ended anyhow let's keep it going so one of the things that that I often and somebody else asked a question about the I mentioned earlier the idea that you know what would you do getting outside of your comfort zone in relation to what would you say if you weren't afraid of the consequences so the part of what I encourage my students to do in this time period and I've probably done it on on previous episodes in this time of year we talk about goal setting I'm pretty sure it was last year we had a whole series on setting goals the idea is not that I'm saying I want to make 20 million dollars this year or I want to be married by the end of the year or I want to finish my PhD by the end of the year or I want to find a new job by the end of the year the idea is again talking about creating a new vessel for ourselves is who do I want to be at the end of the year who do I want to become at the end of the year and the the measurement or the the I'm gonna call it like a even it's it might even be a game you can play with yourself to figure this out is if you think about all of the qualities you wish to feel right who do what or you can also think about what you feel now that you don't like feeling and what would be the replacement feeling and I'm not gonna say emotion because I think it also where Garth revolves around feeling safe and secure feeling wise feeling confident feeling blessed feeling appreciation think about all of those things that you wish to embody and also think about what you wish others to feel from you when you walk into a room what do you want people to feel when people think about you what do you want them to feel from you what it what are the the words the associations you want them to make with you and once you have that list just work backwards what do I need to be to feel more wise what do I need to feel more inspired what do I need to feel more certainty more connection more meaning in my life and that will actually give you the strategy that first of all it will definitely require let's put it this way a degree of discomfort for us to live into our true potential does require stretch does require I don't want to make it seem intolerable but it's like our greatest fears may have to be exposed in order to get to be that person however having those scary moments being afraid being able to sit in the unknown or I don't know what people think of me I don't know how people are gonna feel about what I just said or what I just did that sitting in that discomfort is actually where the increase in not only fulfillment but also as David was saying earlier certainty that's where the certainty comes into play when you are able to best yourself you become more certain you realize that all of the smoke and mirrors that I was afraid of are exactly that just smoke and mirrors the the rejection I was afraid of facing the ridicule I was afraid of facing the loneliness I was afraid of facing that was an illusion and now I am living into being that wise secure confident certain person so I would highly recommend that you sit down during sometime during this week right today is Monday this opportunity opportunity lasts until next Monday and we'll talk more about what next Monday next week has in store for us next week but but being conscious of the choices that we have in every moment by the way it's not just not just this week and not just next week it really is every every single day we're given the opportunity it's interesting what David started with I was thinking about how in the wisdom of Kabbalah recommends and we've spoken about this loosely in in previous episodes there is a series of prayers and meditations that are recommended to do every morning we've shared about it before David often talks and in the episodes about how while he was meditating today or he was praying today he had something came to him so the I would say the first 20 state sayings or things that we pray and and and meditate on our appreciation and he brought up the idea about having you know being appreciative that we have eyes to see and ears to hear I know that my teacher Karen Berg would often say you know you got into nature and you see a beautiful sunset you see a majestic mountain range or you see whatever you see and you're so in awe of the artist right the creator made this beautiful scene scenario setting but do we also recognize the artistry within us that allow us to see that allows us to hear the birds chirping or the waves crashing or whatever it is and the the fact I think that with the one part of that that the importance of that that David didn't touch was the resonance that we achieve when we are in that state of appreciation you know going back to thinking what what would I want people to feel from me I have my own list right here that's why I'm looking at my notebook what I would want people to feel from me or or think what I would like to come to mind when they think of me is that when when I walk in a room people feel heard seen acknowledged recognized that I I notice them that vibration that resonance when I'm in that state of appreciation that doesn't mean that we don't acknowledge the things that can be improved or changed or eliminated even from the the scene the set the movie what have you but we also at the same time by by vibrating and I I hesitate to use that word because some people think it's kind of like woo woo it's it's really that when you broadcast that energy you attract different realities and I'll give you a very simple example when we were traveling in the last few weeks which of course added to the amazing intensity of everything that was happening we were leaving the airplane and someone had left their iPad on the airplane and and so we brought it to the flight attendant and we said you know it was in this in this row and we I mean obviously we could have stolen it but that wasn't what we were getting that's not who we are so we brought it we turned it in and my we get home and my husband says I don't have my wallet and you know in today's day and age you know obviously we don't carry cash the way we might have used to but there was a lot of really important stuff in his wallet and we kind of freaked out a little bit and you know canceled every not canceled but froze everything and I said you know I can't help but think that we have it's coming somebody will find it right we turned in the iPad someone's gonna turn in the wallet so that was Thursday Friday morning I get a phone call from a bank like an hour from our house saying that they have my husband's wallet and and I I couldn't help but think in in the way that kabbalah teachers probably do that the finding of the wallet was a direct result of us turning in the iPad now I can't prove that right but story goes on so so we got the wallet back minus a bit of cash and everything whatever played out we then we got on another plane and after we landed like a few hours after we get an email that says we found your device would you like to pick it up at the airport would you like to ship it to would you like us to ship it to you and I'm thinking to myself what device did we lose and sure enough after emptying out everybody's bags we left you know like a kid's I don't it's not a plug but we left our kids Kindle fire thing fire tablet on the airplane but we didn't even realize it so very grateful of course yes we said send it to our house because we weren't going back to that airport and anyway what I'm sharing it because it's like this endless circle of happy coincidences that take place when you are in that mindset what ends up happening if we're in the opposite mindset is the same cycle of circumstances but not so happy and and that's David's point about certainty is if you don't have the kind of certainty that we talk about on the weekly energy boost the kind of certainty that is I know it's in my movie for a reason I know if it's happening the creator is behind it I know that if this is in my in my path it's for my higher good etc that certainty not I know he's the one or I know this is the job that's confidence certainty is in the system in the laws of the universe in the beneficence of the universe so you end up falling into a loop where that's proven to you if you are in the opposite state of certainty which is nothing ever goes my way everything is miserable why why is everybody else happy and I'm not you end up falling into a same a similar loop of certainty proving you right your your energy is broadcasting things are miserable well guess what if the movie that the projector is broadcasting is a miserable if it's a tragedy the scenes will play out in a tragic way and the fact that we can choose and and I I actually read a really beautiful story don't have time for it now but maybe I'll get to share it next week about somebody who really did change their circumstances in a drastic and meaningful way not that anything happened externally but it was the internal change that facilitated the external change there I try it all I can tell you is this is this is okay I know I already gave you an assignment to make that list try being positively certain try seeing the good in everything try being filled with appreciation from the small things I'm sure that for a lot of people especially those those of us who are affected by health issues I was gonna say COVID but there's no shortage of health issues to be challenged by right we don't take our health for granted after you have a cold and now you can breathe again you appreciate the fact that you are not congested anymore if you have a root canal you appreciate afterwards that you don't have toothache a tooth pain be in that place of gratitude and appreciation and positive certainty and watch how you get proven right now also be aware apropos giving the opponent the middle finger is that your opponent will also slip in and say it didn't work you were certain and you got a parking ticket certainty doesn't work be aware that when the opponent comes and says to you the parking ticket proves that certainty doesn't work that parking ticket is a result of a seed that was planted in the past from negative certainty and you're simply just seeing the fruit in that moment one of the greatest weapons of the opponent is the time and space so you'll that negative seed will be held until a time where it can actually wreak havoc on your consciousness right if you had a bad day and you got a parking ticket you'd be like well sure of course I did but if you get a parking ticket in a day where your consciousness was sparkling consciousness you were in the worldwide wrestling federation of consciousness that day and then you get a parking ticket it's actually a much harder blow to the consciousness than when anyway everything is going south so be conscious being mindful of that and I before we sign off first of all I want to thank you guys your your questions your comments your emails your participation even outside of the live episode always helps us not only be more conscious of how we speak and what we what we put out there but also helps us to prepare for the future oh my goodness you know what I'm just realizing by the way before I send us off into the to the week we are celebrating this is actually our 200th episode can you believe that let's uh for those of you who've been listening since the beginning you deserve the applause more than we do this is this is fun for us but you guys have stuck with it and continue to use it and share it and we're so appreciative to you guys so in celebrating our 200th episode we want to raise a toast to you and thank you for continuing to rate review like comment and share we are only as powerful as as our listeners make us through the use of what we share have a fabulous week full of certainty appreciation and expansion and we'll see you next time on the weekly energy boost